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consisting of strong and sharp spiral threads, 4 on the penultimate 
whorl, the interstices somewhat broader than the threads, a small 
and flat thread below the suture ; they are crossed by distant, broadly 
rounded axial ribs, 10 to 11 on a whorl, and they are cut up into broad 
nodules by the spirals, they vanish on approaching the base ; growth- 
limes very fine and crowded. Colour white. Spire elevated conic, 
turreted, about the same height as ihe aperture; outlines slightly 
convex. Protoconch small, of 14 smooth turns. Whorls 5 to 6, dis- 
tinctly shouldered, lightly rounded below the keel; base somewhat 
contracted. Suture not much impressed, margined. Aperture high 
and narrow, angled above, with an open, short, and slightly recurved 
canal below, its base not notched. Outer lip convex, indistinctly 
angled above, and somewhat contracted below. Columella slightly 
oblique, with 3 plaits, the lowest a little smaller; inner lip thin and 
narrow, forming a very thin layer on the concave parietal wall, drawn 
out to a long and fine point along the inner edge of the canal. 
Diam., 2°7 mm.; height, 6°5 mm. 
Type m the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. 
The type specimens were taken at Station 4. 
Named in honour of Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Curator of the 
Canterbury Museum, the discoverer of the species. 
Family BUCCINIDA. 
CoMINELLA, Gray, 1857. 
Cominella maculata Martyn. 
Buceinum maculatum Mart., Univ. Conch., u, 1784, fig. 49. 
Cominella maculata Mart., Man. Conch. (1), i, 1881, p. 204, pl. Ixxxi, 
figs. 421-424. 
Chatham Islands. 
Cominella maculosa Martyn. 
Buccinum maculosum Mart., Univ. Conch., 1, 1784, fig. 8. 
Cominella testudinea Chemn., Man. Conch. (1), ii, 1881, p. 203, pl. xxx, 
figs. 414, 415. : 
Chatham Islands. 
Cominella nassoides Reeve. 
Buccinum nassoides Rve., Conch. Icon., Buccinum, 1846, sp. 12. 
Cominella nassoides Rve., Man. Conch. (1), m1, 1881, p. 206, pl. Ixxxi, 
figs. 442, 443. 
Station 26 or 30. 
5—Trawling. 
